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Entering phase two: radioactive!
Photo by Yves Alarie on Unsplash In “Good Luck and Cancer,” I wrote that my stint with cancer had lasted only three months from discovery to recovery. It turns out that this was a bit optimistic — though, I hope, not by much.
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Sixty
Photo by Deleece Cook on Unsplash Generally, I haven’t been too fazed by birthdays ending with a zero. 30, 40, even 50 didn’t feel that different from other years. But there’s something equal parts weird and mundane about turning 60.
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Columbo and multi-generational nostalgia
A couple weeks ago, a couple weeks before his sixteenth birthday, the Younger told me that he’s recently been on a “nostalgia kick.”
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Liner Notes: Josie
“How does that Simul-sync function?” In the early ’80s, I got my hands on my first multi-track recorder: a Teac 4-channel reel-to-reel tape recorder.
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Lumpdates: the complete collection
As I wrote in Good luck and cancer, I posted a series of updates on Facebook, documenting my whirlwind encounter with cancer. I’ve collected them here, just for simplicity’s sake.
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Good luck and cancer
Photo by Alois Komenda on Unsplash I seem to be reaching the end of a mercifully brief trip to Cancer Town.
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Positively Ehrenreich: Bright-Sided (Part I, perhaps) [From the Archives]
When The Secret came out in 2006, I had already been dabbling in self-help lore. I was mainly interested in time management; my family and I had been through a lot of changes recently (moving, job changes, new kids), and I was trying to find strategies to make myself feel less overwhelmed. But since time management, at least in the many forms I found it, comes packaged with all the other self-help paraphernalia of goal setting and positive thinking, I had already come across variants of The Secret and its focus, the “scientific” Law of Attraction.
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